BIKE: Bike locks

[Patrick Goetz]

Travis Weller wrote:
> The caveat is: this solution is expensive (~$90) and heavy (~6lbs). But 
> for me, when I depend on my bike for daily transportation, it isn't 
> overkill. I haven't really noticed the extra weight and I got a great 
> deal on a used chain (the majority of the cost).
> 

I can't deal with carrying this much extra weight around.  I use a 
Specialized Hard Lock Wrapper (the thick version) for daytime lockups 
and a Kryptonite New Yorker for overnight.  Since I almost always lock 
up my bike on the bike rack at home, I just leave the New Yorker lock 
there, attached to the bike rack all the time.  The Hard Lock Wrapper 
comes with a plastic holder which allows you to conveniently attach it 
to the frame just above the water bottle holder and is extremely light 
weight (the core is Kevlar rather than steel, which is actually harder 
to cut through using standard bolt cutters).  This lock - the Wrapper - 
also did fairly well in the Bicycling magazine theft test, where they 
hired a former professional bike thief to try and get through various 
bike locks using only tools he could carry with him in a bicycle 
messenger bag.  This guy was able to get through most U-locks in  7-15 
seconds.  The HLW took him 37 seconds, and the only lock he was unable 
to defeat was the New Yorker.